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Chapter 74: Elena, I am Fine
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2026-06-22 01:30:00
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Thread of Devotion Chapter 135: The Space Between Us
His hand dropped. “Sorry,” he said, quiet. Zoya looked at him, and he looked almost as surprised at himself as she felt. “You don’t have to—” she started. “I know,” he said. Neither of them finished the sentence. Zoya turned back to Liyana, smoothing the blanket again even though it was already perfectly straight. Raiyan stepped back. Neither of them mentioned what had just happened. But Zoya could still feel the ghost of his fingers beside her ear, and Raiyan, looking down at his sleeping daughter, understood with a quiet kind of dread that he hadn’t touched her like a stranger. He’d touched her like a husband. For one small, unguarded second, he had forgotten they weren’t one anymore. And that, somehow, was far more dangerous than if he’d meant to. … The room had finally gone quiet. Zoya glanced at the clock, then eased herself back from the bed, checking the blanket one last time before she reached for her bag. “I’m going to pray,” she said, already reaching
Thread of Devotion Chapter 134: The Long Night
He stopped dead.Liyana in Zoya’s lap. Zoya’s face open in a way he hadn’t seen since the last time he’d seen her, years ago now.“Daddy!” Liyana scrambled off Zoya’s lap and ran to him. “Daddy look, pretty Aunty gave me chocolate and her bunny!”He caught her out of habit, his eyes staying on Zoya over the top of his daughter’s head.He had seen her in silk. In diamonds. Standing across courtrooms with a room full of people waiting for her to speak. He had never seen anything land quite like this, an unguarded softness on her face that she didn’t hand the world, the exact expression she used to wear making tea for him at midnight when neither of them could sleep. His daughter had found it in minutes.His chest tightened.He looked away. Then looked back.He was beginning to resent how often that seemed to be happening.Zoya looked down, then away, already standing, smoothing her skirt with both hands. He watched her rebuild herself piece by piece, the way he’d always been able to wat
Thread of Devotion Chapter 133: The Fever That Brought Her Home
Zoya had been in the conference room since seven. The Whitmore acquisition dispute. New client, high-profile, the kind of case that came with its own PR team already assembled before the retainer was signed. Marcus Whitmore wanted to fight it to the last dollar and had said so four times in the last hour, each time slightly louder, as though volume were a legal strategy. She had given him precise answers. Clean risk assessments. She kept her voice level on the fourth repetition, the way she'd kept it level on the first three, and didn't let him see what that cost her. Alan set a coffee down beside her hand without being asked, her third refill, and said nothing about it. "You should eat something," he said, quiet, between clients, sliding a printout an inch closer to her hand. "I'm fine," she said, not looking up from the page. "You've said that four times today," he said, counting it off on his fingers, half a joke, watching her face for the real answer underneath it. She looke
Thread of Devotion Chapter 132: Tell Me Everything
The swing had been hers since she was seven.Joseph had put it up the summer she came to live with him, a simple thing, two ropes and a plank of wood between two old oak trees at the back of the garden, nothing special, but she'd claimed it immediately and it had been hers ever since. When she was thinking, she went to the swing. When she was hurting, she went to the swing. When the world got too loud and she needed somewhere to be small for a while, she went to the swing.He found her there as the evening came in.She wasn't swinging, just sitting, feet on the ground, hands around the ropes, her face turned toward the garden the way she looked at things when she wasn't really seeing them.Joseph sat on the garden bench nearby. He didn't speak right away. He'd known her long enough to understand that some silences needed to be sat in before they could be spoken through.After a while he said, "I heard you won."She said nothing.The garden held its evening quiet, birds somewhere, the
Thread of Devotion Chapter 131: Dancing Octopus
Mei's apartment looked like a toy store had exploded in the middle of a Category 5 hurricane.The suitcase was wide open on the bed, looking less like luggage and more like a cry for help. It had been open for three hours, and so far the only thing Mei had successfully packed was a sense of escalating dread. There were dresses folded with aggressive optimism, two identical sweaters she'd forgotten she owned, and a mountain of stuffed animals that seemed to be multiplying every time she looked away.In the center of the disaster, Mei sat cross-legged on the carpet, hair clipped up with a single exhausted claw clip that looked one inconvenience away from giving up entirely. She held a stuffed rabbit in one hand and a plush bear in the other like she was negotiating international peace treaties."This one is for Liyana baby," she announced seriously. "And this one is for Riyana baby."Evan leaned against the doorway, watching the chaos with the calm resignation of a man who'd loved Mei l
Thread of Devotion Chapter 130: Verdict
Trial 6 The jury came back at 2:14.Zoya sat at the prosecution table, hands flat over her closed file. Her face gave nothing away.When the foreman stood, she didn't look at the defense table. She kept her eyes on him."On the matter of environmental negligence," the foreman said, "the jury finds the defendant, Mansoor Corporation, liable."The room shifted. People moved in their seats."With respect to damages—the jury awards full compensatory damages to the plaintiff class as specified in exhibit eighty-one. The jury further recommends mandatory environmental remediation of the eastern watershed and affected community zones, subject to independent environmental review and enforceable compliance clauses."In the back row, someone put a hand over their mouth.The foreman read the rest: the operational penalties and the corporate compliance review within ninety days. Then he sat down, and the judge took over with sentencing parameters.Zoya stopped listening.It wasn't because she fe
Thread of Devotion Chapter 13
Zoya went into the bedroom and shut the door.The click of the latch sounded louder than it should've, like the apartment itself was listening.She stood with her back against the door for one second—one breath—then forced herself to move.Coat. Bag. Phone.Simple actions. Rules. Steps.If she let
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Raiyan didn't get back into the car right away.He stood by the open door, staring at the building entrance like staring harder could undo time. Like Zoya might reappear, coat swinging, eyes softened, say his name the way she used to—with room in it.She didn't.The glass doors closed. The lobby li
Last Updated : 2026-03-20Thread of Devotion Chapter 12
Mei locked the door again like it would fix everything.Chain. Bolt. Handle checked twice.Zoya watched her do it and hated the part of her that wanted to believe it. Like metal and wood could negotiate with men who didn't respect "no."Kenji stood near the window, peeking through the curtain like
Last Updated : 2026-03-19Thread of Devotion Chapter 36: Bedroom Now
Zoya finally turned, her glare locked and loaded. But the retort died in her throat. He looked exhausted. There were shadows under his eyes that hadn’t been there before, and his frame looked leaner under his suit. But the way he was looking at the dinner—and then at her—was so raw it made her ch
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